Estuary Processes and Managment - River Dynamics and Integrated River Management - page 466

Fig. 8.5 Female deltas consist of numerous islands and spider-web like channels: (a) Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta;
(b) Irrawadi delta; (c) Pearl River delta; and (d) Volga delta
Fig. 8.6 Gender of the delta as a function of sediment load/water ratio and tidal range